Ottawa Citizen

Canadian daily newspaper in Ontario

Ottawa CitizenFair Play and Daylight

The February 1, 2016, front page of the Ottawa Citizen

Type| Daily (no print edition on Sundays or Mondays)[1][2]
Format| Broadsheet, digital
Owner(s)| Postmedia Network
Editor| Nicole Feriancek[3]
Founded| 1845; 180 years ago (1845) (as the Bytown Packet)
Language| English
Headquarters| 1101 Baxter Road
Ottawa, Ontario
K2C 3M4
Circulation| 231,000 weekdays, 490,000 weekly for print and digital[4] (as of 2022)vividata
ISSN| 0839-3222
Website| ottawacitizen.com

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[5]

## History

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Established as the Bytown Packet in 1845 by William Harris, it was renamed the Citizen in 1851.[6] The newspaper's original motto, which has recently been returned to the editorial page, was Fair Play and Day-Light.[7]

The paper has been through a number of owners. In 1846, Harris sold the paper to John Gordon Bell and Henry J. Friel.[8] Robert Bell bought the paper in 1849, and sold it to I.B. Taylor in 1861.[9] In 1877, Charles Herbert Mackintosh became the principal owner, and he later sold it to Robert and Lewis Shannon.[10]

In 1897, the Citizen became one of several papers owned by the Southam family.[11] It remained under Southam until the chain was purchased by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. in 1996.[7] In 2000, the chain was sold to Canwest Global, which was taken over by Postmedia Network in 2010.[12][13]

The editorial view of the Citizen has varied with its ownership, taking a reform position under Friel,[8] and a conservative position (supporting John A. Macdonald) under Mackintosh.[10] When the Liberals defeated the Tory government in 1896, the owners of the Citizen decided to sell to Southam, rather than face an expected cut in government revenue.[11] In 2002, the Citizen's publisher, Russell Mills, was dismissed following the publication of a story critical of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and an editorial calling for Chrétien's resignation.[14]

The Citizen published its last Sunday edition on July 15, 2012. This move meant 20 fewer newsroom jobs, and was part of a series of changes made by Postmedia.[15] The Citizen stopped producing a print edition on Mondays as of 17 October 2022, due to the costs of printing and delivery, but it continued to publish a digital Monday edition.[2]

Former logo

The pre-2014 logo depicted the top of the Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. In 2014, the newspaper adopted a new logo showing the paper's name over an outline of the Peace Tower roof on a green background. [citation needed]

## Circulation

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The Ottawa Citizen's circulation in 2009 was 123,856 copies daily. Its circulation dropped by 26 percent to 91,796 in 2015.[16]

In Spring 2022, the Ottawa Citizen's unduplicated print and digital average weekday audience was 231,000, and its unduplicated average weekly audience was 490,000.[4]

## Notable people

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* Scott Keir Anderson, editor-in-chief from 1996 to 2007[17]
* Scott Burnside, ice hockey columnist[18]
* Peter Calamai (1943–2019), editorial pages editor[19]
* Randall Denley, long-time Ottawa Citizen writer who retired in 2012[20]
* Bob Ferguson (1931–2014), sports journalist and writer[21]
* Terry Glavin, Ottawa Citizen writer until 2020[22]
* Charles Gordon, writer and columnist at the Ottawa Citizen from 1974 to 2005[23]
* John Honderich, Ottawa Citizen reporter from 1973 to 1976[24]
* Kelvin Kirk, artist at the Ottawa Citizen[25]
* Eddie MacCabe (1927–1998), journalist, sports editor and writer[26][27]
* Russell Mills, editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen from 1976 to 1984, then publisher[28]
* Gerry Nott, editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2014[28]
* Andrew Potter, editor-in-chief from 2013 to 2016[28]
* Jane Taber, political reporter[29]
* James Travers, editor-in-chief from 1991 to 1996[30]

## See also

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* Canadian daily newspapers

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* Ontario
* Journalism

## References

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1. ^ "Ottawa Citizen cuts jobs, ends Sunday print edition". CTV News. May 29, 2012.
2. ^ a b "Notice to Ottawa Citizen readers". Ottawa Citizen. September 21, 2022.
3. ^ Crawford, Blair (February 22, 2023). "Nicole Feriancek named editor-in-chier of the Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Sun". Ottawa Citizen.
4. ^ a b vividata. "Newspaper Topline Readership" (PDF).
5. ^ "Ottawa Citizen".
6. ^ Cobb, Chris (July 16, 1992). "Comedy of Errors". Ottawa Citizen. p. A2. Retrieved July 16, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ a b Boswell, Randy (January 20, 2020). "A window into history: A trip back to the Citizen's fascinating beginnings, 175 years ago".
8. ^ a b Cross, Michael (1976). "Friel, Henry James". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IX (1861–1870) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
9. ^ Pilon, Henri (1972). "Bell, Robert". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. X (1871–1880) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
10. ^ a b Bruce, Charles (1968). News and the Southams. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. pp. 70–72.
11. ^ a b Parry, David (April 9, 1977). "To buy dying paper he needed $4,000". Edmonton Journal. p. 105. Retrieved July 16, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
12. ^ Potter, Jessica (October 17, 2014). "The Ottawa Citizen". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
13. ^ "Hollinger sells 28 Ontario newspapers for $220 million". CBC News. July 31, 2001.
14. ^ "Fired publisher named Nieman Fellow Archived January 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine". Harvard Gazette. 2002.
15. ^ [1] Archived June 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
16. ^ "Daily Newspaper Circulation Data". News Media Canada. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
17. ^ "Ottawa Citizen's top editor leaves to become CanWest VP". CBC News. November 15, 2007.
18. ^ Burnside, Scott (November 23, 2001). "Former Senator reroutes NHL dream through Russia". Ottawa Citizen. p. 22.; Burnside, Scott (November 3, 2002). "Fans turn on Leafs by not turning out". Ottawa Citizen. p. 19.
19. ^ Boswell, Randy (January 23, 2019). "Remembering Peter Calamai: Journalist, Teacher and 'Advocate for Science, Literacy and Journalistic Professionalism' (1943-2019)". Carleton University. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
20. ^ "Candidates in Ottawa West-Nepean riding share a fraught political past". The Globe and Mail. May 18, 2014.
21. ^ Scanlan, Wayne (June 7, 1996). "There ain't nothing like an old-time sports writer". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario. p. 15.
22. ^ "Terry Glavin". Ottawa Citizen.
23. ^ Duffy, Andrew (June 30, 2023). "Former Ottawa Citizen columnist one of four Ottawans appointed to the Order of Canada".
24. ^ Lederman, Marsha (February 6, 2022). "Former Toronto Star publisher John Honderich, among 'last of the lions' of Canadian journalism, dead at 75". The Globe and Mail.
25. ^ Archdeacon, Tom (April 27, 2012). "UD player first 'Mr. Irrelevant' in NFL Draft".
26. ^ Chwialkowska, Luiza (May 24, 1998). "Eddie MacCabe: A glimpse it the city's soul". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario. p. 7.
27. ^ Brown, Dave (May 23, 1998). "Eddie MacCabe: A local legend lost". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario. p. 27.; Brown, Dave (May 23, 1998). "MacCabe did it well or didn't bother with it at all". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario. p. 28.
28. ^ a b c "Former Citizen editors-in-chief on their proudest moments, greatest disappointments". Ottawa Citizen. November 28, 2020.
29. ^ "Jane Taber". Board of Governors, Carleton University.
30. ^ Duffy, Andrew (November 25, 2020). "Editors-in-chief: The Citizen newsroom has been led by the formidable and the quirky". Ottawa Citizen.

## Sources

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* Adam, Mohammed. (January 2, 2005). "When we began 1845: For 160 years, the Citizen has been the 'heartbeat of the community". Ottawa Citizen.
* Bruce, Charles (1968). News and the Southams. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. pp. 70–72.
* Kesterton, Wilfred H. (1984). A History of Journalism in Canada. Ottawa: Carleton University Press. ISBN 978-0-88629-022-1.
* Rutherford, Paul (1982). A Victorian authority: The Daily Press in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-5588-0. DDC 71.1. LCC PN4907.

## External links

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